Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years

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Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years
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ReleasedJuly 8, 2008 (2008-07-08)
Recorded1987–2007
Genre Death metal
Label Metal Blade
Producer Denise Korycki
Cannibal Corpse chronology
Live Cannibalism
(2000)
Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years
(2008)
Global Evisceration
(2011)
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Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years is the third video album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse, released in 2008. It contains a three-hour documentary on the history of the band and several concert performances as extra features. [4] It was released on July 8 [5] in USA and July 14 [6] in Europe. This DVD has also been certified platinum in Canada. [7] [8]

Contents

Disc one

Cannibal Corpse history

1987–1995

1996–2007

Disc two

Cannibal Corpse performances

With Full Force 2007 (Löbnitz, Germany)

  1. "Unleashing the Bloodthirsty"
  2. "Murder Worship"
  3. "Disposal of the Body"

Toronto 2006

  1. "The Time to Kill Is Now"
  2. "Disfigured"
  3. "Death Walking Terror"
  4. "Covered With Sores"
  5. "Born in a Casket"
  6. "I Cum Blood"
  7. "Decency Defied"
  8. "Make Them Suffer"
  9. "Dormant Bodies Bursting"
  10. "Five Nails Through the Neck"
  11. "Devoured by Vermin"
  12. "Hammer Smashed Face"
  13. "Stripped, Raped and Strangled"

Party San 2005

  1. "Puncture Wound Massacre"
  2. "Sentenced to Burn"
  3. "Fucked With a Knife"
  4. "Psychotic Precision"
  5. "Pulverized"
  6. "Pounded into Dust"
  7. "The Wretched Spawn"

New York 2000

  1. "The Spine Splitter"
  2. "Dead Human Collection"

Jacksonville 1996

  1. "Mummified in Barbed Wire"

Nashville 1994

  1. "Entrails Ripped from a Virgin's Cunt"
  2. "Pulverized"

Buffalo 1989

  1. "Shredded Humans"
  2. "Rotting Head"

Music videos

  • "Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead"
  • "Devoured by Vermin"
  • "Sentenced to Burn"
  • "Decency Defied"
  • "Death Walking Terror"
  • "Make Them Suffer"
  • "Stripped, Raped and Strangled" 2007 (with Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder)

Disc three

Bonus chunks

Band line up

Current members

Past members

Specifications

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [8] Platinum10,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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